102 MASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1875 April 23. Carolina's Middlesex Co., Mass. Shrick fairly startled me until I remembered its author: it was a Wilson Bristle and the sharp kake scarp of several others as they rose from the marsh to the Westward and an answering drumming from the Block Island madow immediately succeeded, and now the purry peep of the Hylas swelled up from very pool and with the croaking of Piana hahania inaugurated a chorus that would prevail till the dawn of the next day. A few minutes later a large owl dail'd on me but I did not catch sight of him until too late to fire. He continued in flight during moment beating about over the woods with intermittent flapping & failing inclining occasionally to either side, and finally soaring high up in the air, circling about of motionless wings like a buzzard or an eagle and eventually disappearing in the gathering darkness. I let him hover as Otis Wilsonians though it might have been a Brachyurus, but it was one of the two. His tail was wide spread as he passed over me and a certain buoyant lift of the body and indicativeness of purpose at each stroke of the wings reminded me quite freely of a night hawk. Coming down through the swamps I heard at least three different individuals of Poyana Carolina one of them calling incessantly kae, kae, kae; & the other Cuckling as noted in former occasions. N. Nesbit shot 2 & Nitton Carolina's